FCTA Orders Secondary Schools to Close Over Insecurity

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has ordered all public senior secondary schools in Abuja to close by Friday, November 28, due to urgent security concerns.

Aishatu Alhassan, the Director of School Services at the FCT Secondary Education Board, shared this information in a memo on Tuesday.

The memo, which our correspondent obtained, instructed principals and school heads to stop all academic activities immediately and to ensure that students are dismissed safely and in an orderly manner.

The FCTA also told schools to inform students, staff, and parents, adjust all planned academic activities, and be prepared to resume on the next scheduled school day unless they receive further instructions.

The administration stressed that schools should plan to reopen on the next official academic day unless they get new directives.

The memo advised all principals and school heads to treat this directive as “important and urgent.”

“All academic activities must end accordingly, and students should be dismissed properly and safely,” it stated.

PUNCH Online previously reported that on November 12, bandits took 25 female students from the Government Girls Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State.

In total, 315 people, including 303 students and 12 teachers, were kidnapped from St. Mary’s School in Papiri, located in the Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State.

Also, 38 worshippers from the Christ Apostolic Church in Oke Isegun in Eruku, located in the Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, were kidnapped and later released.

On Monday evening, at least ten residents from the Isapa community in Kwara were also taken.